Rewiring the Mind: A Conversation with Emma Thompson on Hypnotherapy and Lasting Transformation

Part of the series: 30 Founders Shaping the Future of Mental Health in 2025

In a world where quick fixes often overshadow deep healing, Emma Thompson’s approach stands out for its lasting impact and emotional depth. A certified hypnotherapist trained under the renowned Marisa Peer, Emma specialises in helping clients reprogram their subconscious minds to break free from limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging patterns. Her work is not about managing symptoms—it’s about rewiring the root of the problem.

From guiding clients through panic attacks to helping high performers overcome invisible barriers, Emma’s method is tailored, interactive, and profoundly transformative. In this interview, she shares powerful success stories, insights into her therapeutic process, and how she blends science, intuition, and subconscious work to help people step into the lives they were always meant to live.

Your approach emphasizes reprogramming the subconscious mind to overcome limiting beliefs. Could you share a success story where this method led to a significant transformation in a client’s life?

Absolutely. One client came to me experiencing 2-3 panic attacks a week. She was functioning on the outside but constantly overwhelmed, stuck in a cycle of fear and avoidance. In our session, we uncovered a core belief formed in childhood surrounding the death of a parent - she felt unseen, unheard and emotionally ignored. The belief that 'no one cares' had wired itself into her subconscious, shaping how she responded to stress and connection as an adult.

We had just one hypnotherapy session and worked together over 30 days. Her panic attacks stopped immediately after that first session. Six months on, anxiety has only reappeared twice (both during extreme stress) and in those moments, she was able to calm herself before it escalated. Because she now understands the anxiety. She recognises where it comes from, what it’s trying to protect her from and how to respond to it with awareness rather than fear.

This is the power of subconscious work. It doesn’t just mask symptoms - it rewires the narrative underneath them. And when clients understand their minds, they reclaim their ability to respond rather than react.

You’ve trained under the award winning therapist, and founder of Rapid Transformational Therapy, Marisa Peer. What aspects of this training have most influenced your practice, and how do you integrate them into your sessions?

Training as a hypnotherapist under Marisa Peer means the style of hypnotherapy I utilise in my work also integrates powerful elements of RTT. What influenced me most was the deep focus on root cause work - going beyond surface level symptoms to uncover the original beliefs and experiences that shaped how someone sees themselves and the world.

My sessions blend root cause exploration with parts therapy and suggestion therapy - all designed to help the client understand and rewire their internal programming. The style of hypnotherapy I offer isn’t passive or generic - it’s interactive, tailored and transformational. By speaking directly to the subconscious during a state that mimics REM sleep (where dreaming and memory consolidation happens), we help the brain form new neural pathways, effectively reshaping how the client thinks, feels and behaves.

You offer hypnotherapy for a wide range of issues, from anxiety to performance enhancement. How do you tailor your sessions to address such diverse challenges effectively?

The diversity of issues clients bring - from chronic anxiety to lack of confidence or self-sabotage - often have a shared thread: the stories they’ve unconsciously absorbed and internalised. That’s why every session starts with education. I help clients understand how their thoughts drive feelings, which drive actions, habits, and ultimately, their identity. Once they learn to work backwards to 'find the thought', they begin to reclaim their power.

We use hypnotherapy to address the root of the issue on a subconscious level - often tied to past experiences or beliefs formed early in life. Because the subconscious doesn’t respond to logic, it responds to emotion and imagery, the hypnotic state allows us to go deep and offer new, empowering suggestions to the mind.

Whether I’m working with someone on public speaking anxiety or building consistency in their business, the process is tailored - but the goal is the same: to rewire the mind so they can feel, act, and live in alignment with who they actually want to be.

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